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Cc: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>,
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Subject: Re: Compiling ports in a post-9.0-RELEASE world
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16.03.2011, 13:33, "Ade Lovett" <ade@FreeBSD.org>:
> On Mar 16, 2011, at 04:39 , Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>
>> šWhat will happen to ports in non-clang arches (sparc64, ia64) after 9.0R?
>
> With any luck, they will die a silent death and be pointed in the direction of NetBSD that likes to look after irrelevant architectures. ši386/amd64 for primary use, arm/mips for embedded. šAnything else is just ridiculous.

What about Power Architecrure (formerly PowerPC)? 
It's widely used both for embedded and enterprise (pSeries, Blue Gene, etc.)

-- 
Regards,
Konstantin